Posts Tagged ‘Project Natal’

Microsoft has officially launched its controller-free motion sensing device. Previously known as Project Natal, it now has a proper name: Kinect.
The device, for the Xbox 360, has a camera, audio sensors and motion sensors that track the movements of 48 key body parts (not that one, not yet). It can recognize faces and voices.
Kinect can perform full-motion tracking of the human body at 30 frames per second, and isn’t affected by what a user is wearing or what type of furniture is around.
“Some people don’t like controllers,” said Mike Delman, corporate vice president of global marketing for interactive entertainment.
“And Kinect makes the gaming and entertainme

There is a good chance that several websites may have spoiled the Microsoft Project Natal party on June 13.
Several websites have come out and claimed connections to reliable sources that now say that Project Natal will cost $149, which is about 50% more than the rumored price so far. Also, a website claims to know the name of Project Natal and says it will ship with the name Wave.
Microsoft may have sabotaged itself by releasing a brown Zune MP3 player and by naming its social cellphones Kin, but we have serious doubt that Microsoft will be naming the Natal device Wave. There is already a website called Wave that is operated by Microsoft and that is used to “bring you the freshe